National and Local Visionaries:
Video Interviews A-C
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* Local Visionary
Selected and Interviewed by NVLP Fellow
| Visionaries A-C • D-G • H-L • M-R • S-Z | |
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Joe Adams Entertainment Manager/Actor and long-time manager of Ray Charles |
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Lucy Allen Plaintiff in the landmark case to restore the rights and status of African American Freedman recently expelled from the Cherokee |
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Clifford Alexander First African American Secretary of the Army; Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision; Advisor to President Johnson; attorney; businessman |
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Maya Angelou Renowned poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, producer, and director |
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Lee Archer Member of the distinguished Tuskegee Airmen; First African American “ Ace.” |
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Ernie Banks Major League ballplayer known as "Mr. Cub" first National Leaguer to win the MVP Award in consecutive years (1958 to 1959) |
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Rev. Willie T. Barrow Minister, activist. Founding member of Rainbow PUSH Coalition |
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Rudolph Belisle* Entrepreneur and Warden of Orleans Parish Prison |
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Derrick Bell Civil Rights lawyer, author, and first African American professor tenured at Harvard Law School |
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Lerone Bennett Jr. Executive editor of Ebony magazine and author of Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America |
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Keter Betts* Jazz Bassist |
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A.A. Birch, Jr.* Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice |
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David Harold Blackwell Mathematician in the fields of applied mathematics and statistics |
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Lillie Virginia Drake Bowman* Educator |
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Pecolia Boyles* Community Leader |
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J. Robert Bradley* Gospel Singer |
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William E. Brantley* Educator |
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Randolph W. Bromery Geologist and geophysicist, former chancellor of University of Massachusetts, Amherst; also one of the Tuskeegee Airmen |
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Edward Brooke First African American member of the US Senate since Reconstruction |
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Jerome Brooks* Real Estate Broker and Retired U.S. Postal Service Employee |
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Eleanor Brown* Guidiance Counselor, Principal & Former President of Jack and Jill of America |
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Oscar Brown Singer, Poet, Playwright, Activist |
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Roscoe Lee Browne Internationally renowned actor on both stage and screen |
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C.C. Bryant Social activist and civil rights leader; instrumental in desegregating Mississippi facilities, as well as the “Freedom Summer” Mississippi black voter education and registration drives |
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Earl Caldwell* |
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James Cameron |
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Robert Lee Carter |
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Elizabeth Catlett Internationally acclaimed artist, known for her extraordinary sculptures and lithographs |
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Ray Charles Legendary recording artist, singer, songwriter and musician |
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Leah Chase Executive Chef of Dooky Chase's Restaurant, a New Orleans Creole Landmark; Civil Rights Activist |
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Mary Alice Chineworth Member of the Oblate Sisters Of Providence, the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States |
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Shirley Chisholm First African American woman to serve in the US Congress, and to actively run for the presidency of the United States |
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Robert Churchwell* Retired Journalist |
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Margaret Washington Clifford* Educator, Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington |
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Alice Coachman 1st African American woman Olympic Gold medal winner |
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William T. Coleman, Jr. First African American Secretary of Transportation; First African American Supreme Court Clerk; Coauthor of Brown v. Board of Education Brief |
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Cardiss Collins Politician, Longest-serving African American Congresswoman |
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John Conyers, Jr. Chairman of House Judiciary Committee, co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus and the second-longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives |
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Flora Davis Crittenden* Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
| * Local Visionary Selected and Interviewed by NVLP Fellow | |
| Visionaries A-C • D-G • H-L • M-R • S-Z |